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URANUS
Jennifer Arredondo
DISCOVERY
o Uranus was discovered on March 13, 1781.
o It was discovered by William Herschel.
o When Uranus was discovered they named it after the Greek god of
Heaven and the ruler of the world.
o Uranus was accidentally discovered.
POSITION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
o Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun.
o Uranus is 1.78 billion miles away from the sun .
ROTATION AND ORBIT
o A day on Uranus is 17 hours.
o A year on Uranus is 84 Earth years.
o Uranus’s axis is tilted toward a star.
o Half of the planet gets sunlight and the other half doesn’t .
SIZE
o Uranus is about 31,690miles in diameter.
o It is four times bigger than Earth.
o Uranus is the third largest gas giant .
ATMOSPHERE
o The atmosphere of Uranus is very thick.
o The atmosphere is made out of 82.5-hydrgen,5.2-helium,and 2.3-methane.
o It is the coldest of all the planets.
TEMPERATURE
o The temperature of Uranus is -350 degrees.
o It is the coldest of all the planets.
APPEARANCE
o Uranus is a gas giant.
o It’s color is bluish greenish.
o It has big rings around it that is hard to see.
MOONS AND RINGS
o Uranus has 11 rings made out of chunks of rock.
o Uranus also has 27 moons that are all different sizes.
o These are the names of all the moons:
Cordelia,Ophelia,Bianca,Cressida,Desdemona,Juliet,Portia,,Rosalinda,Cupid,Belinda
,Perdita,Puck,Mab,Margarel,Propero,Setphano,Triculo,Sycorax,Setebos,Ferdinand,M
iranda,Titana,Obreon,Airel,Umbriel,Francisco, and Caliban.
o The moons were named after characters made by William Shakespeare and
Alexander pope.
HUMAN SURVIVAL
o On Uranus someone cold die of coldness or of gas toxic.
o The seasons on Uranus is very crazy for people to be living in.
o People can choke with Uranus’s atmosphere .
INTERESTING FACTS
o Spacecraft voyager2 has visited Uranus to collect information about the
planet.
o Uranus was the first planet discovered by scientists.
o Uranus was discovered accidentally because William Herschel was looking
at the stars with his telescope when he spotted Uranus.
o It is the only planet that spins on it’s side.